topic Page weight is still too great in Freelancershttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16061#M5291
OK, good they are hiring properly.
But with so many applicants, it is still overloading the web page, and hence servers and browsers. For the job I looked at, the HTML contain a list of 1041 applicants, but only the first 8 can ever be viewed. (The 'more' link for jobs with more than 8 applicants has been disabled.)
Can you raise this as a bug in the oDesk web interface? It should only need to display the latest few hundred applicants at most.Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:41:01 GMTkimryan732014-10-30T17:41:01ZHow many inivited appilcants is too many, 11,000+https://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/879#M301
Saw this post ****
There were so many applicants that the script in the oDesk web page was crashing trying to display them all. A limit of 50 would surely be enough. I didn't have any of the skills this client wanted.
Also looks like they are trying to hire outside of oDesk, as there appears to be a link to hire directly.
*[Removed by Admin]Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:38:48 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/879#M301kimryan732014-10-30T13:38:48ZIs this not breaching the rules?https://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16053#M5287
It appears to me that this job has a link in it to apply diectly to them, and bypass odesk. Isn't this against the rules? But all odesk does is remove my reference to the job.
After declining this offer, I get another invitation within an hour, for near identical job. Again they invite 5000+ contractors. Is this not spam?Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:40:55 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16053#M5287kimryan732014-10-30T17:40:55ZHi Kim, Posting links to ahttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16055#M5288
Hi Kim,
Posting links to a job is against the forum rules. Please flag the job post as spam so that Marketplace Quality team can investigate. Thanks!Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:40:57 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16055#M5288asajid2014-10-30T17:40:57ZAlready flaggedhttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16057#M5289
I reported this as "client requesting to work outside of oDesk" yesterday when I wrote this post. Flagged them as spam about 8 hours ago. But both jobs are still there now.
And even viewing them causes big delays in the web browser. Looks like thousands of applicants are in the HTML source, which is a massive 10,000 lines long and 1 MB in size. But you only see last 8 applicants. So inviting this many applicants is overloading the oDesk web interface.Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:40:58 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16057#M5289kimryan732014-10-30T17:40:58ZKim I went back to check thehttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16059#M5290
Kim I went back to check the job post and they are a legitimate client. They have an application process outside of oDesk but hire and pay through oDesk.Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:41:00 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16059#M5290asajid2014-10-30T17:41:00ZPage weight is still too greathttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16061#M5291
OK, good they are hiring properly.
But with so many applicants, it is still overloading the web page, and hence servers and browsers. For the job I looked at, the HTML contain a list of 1041 applicants, but only the first 8 can ever be viewed. (The 'more' link for jobs with more than 8 applicants has been disabled.)
Can you raise this as a bug in the oDesk web interface? It should only need to display the latest few hundred applicants at most.Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:41:01 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16061#M5291kimryan732014-10-30T17:41:01ZIs that the company thathttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16063#M5292
Is that the company that wants you to work for a week for free first, and then IF they hire you out of the 5000+ people they invite you get paid?
If so... I tried calling them, and ended up with a run around of several people who said the company name has changed several times through the years and ultimately no one knew who they were or how to contact them... and that is from a phone number I got off their own websiteThu, 30 Oct 2014 17:41:03 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16063#M5292t-hall2014-10-30T17:41:03ZSounds like themhttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16065#M5293
Yes, you have to do a test, and if you pass that and the first weeks assignment, then they pay you. They are called g_t_e_a_m. Some other posts about them here also, describing some dubious tax arrangements between US and United Arab Emirates.
They still offer paid work, so it's there if you are ok with that type of setup I guess.Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:41:04 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16065#M5293kimryan732014-10-30T17:41:04ZFirst time I heard of them Ihttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16067#M5294
First time I heard of them I thought it was Google, and later found out it wasn't.
I'd REALLY like to know what the first week entails. Is it work that they can and actually would benefit from, or is it a standard test, the same for everyone, which they cannot profit?
I once said that, thinking they were Google, if they sent me a decent offer I'd work with them in a heartbeat. Shortly after I received an offer for a management role paying$35/hr. I was on the fence about it and decided to call. That's when I got the run-around and ended up with a bunch of people who had no idea who I was trying to call. Needless to say after that point have been weary to say the least. I only wanted to find out what this fist week was about and it was damn near impossible, so I just gave up.Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:41:06 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16067#M5294t-hall2014-10-30T17:41:06ZLooks like first week is a test to see if you are good enoughhttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16069#M5295
But even people who pass the first week don't get any comment on their feedback.
Not allowed to post links here, but if you search for the post "My First Contract" in this section, there is a long thread about them. Some said work was very hard but legit. Others said it is a tax scam. Claim they run a lot of these oDesk jobs through UAE to minimize there US tax commitments. .
I got invited again twice today by them, the job has had 11,000+ applicants so they are spamming heaps of contractors. I didn't have any of the skills they were asking for.Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:41:07 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16069#M5295kimryan732014-10-30T17:41:07ZHi everyone, We can see thathttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16641#M5455
Hi everyone,
We can see that some of you have received unwanted invites from gTeam. If you want to permanently opt out of invites from this client please fill out this <A target="_blank" href="https://url.odesk.com/~1h1cq4">form</A>. Kindly allow up to a week for the change to take affect.
Thanks!Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:48:21 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16641#M5455asajid2014-10-30T17:48:21ZThanks oDesk for this improvmenthttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16643#M5456
I have opted out of gTeam offers now.
Maybe in the future you could consider a 'block' option that clients could apply to any client?Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:48:23 GMThttps://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/How-many-inivited-appilcants-is-too-many-11-000/m-p/16643#M5456kimryan732014-10-30T17:48:23Z